10 WWE Wrestler Attires That Paid Tribute To Other Wrestlers
3. The New Day - Various (SmackDown, 31st October 2017)
Big E is dressed as Akeem from 2017 in the image above because it happens to be your writer's favourite of the bunch, but The New Day have done a fantastic job over the last few Halloween editions of WWE television of paying homage to company icons in the name of injecting patter into proceedings.
With E as the 'African Dream', Kofi Kingston as Brother Love and Xavier Woods in Jimmy Hart attire, the 1980s were well represented, unlike the year prior in which they hilariously covered three faces of Charles Wright (Kama Mustafa, Papa Shango and The Godfather) and an awesome turn as The Brood in 2018.
The love is clear in the outfit choice, and it goes some way to reconciling something of an adoration the current crop of stars have for older talents that they sometimes struggle to break free from. Dolph Ziggler coined the "Gratitude Era" as a phrase to sum up the levels of hero worship replacing the thirst for current stars to make money and make themselves stars, but these gentle nods to the past are so impeccably silly that they skew similar serious analysis beyond affectionate parody.